Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alvand Class Frigates, Babr Class Destroyers, Destroyers of the Imperial Iranian Navy, United States Navy Ships Transferred to the Imperial Iranian Navy, Uss Zellars, Uss Stormes, Uss Trout, Uss Kenneth D. Bailey, Iranian Frigate Sabalan, Uss Amphion, Uss Gordius, Iranian Frigate Sahand, Uss Bordelon, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alvand Class Frigates, Babr Class Destroyers, Destroyers of the Imperial Iranian Navy, United States Navy Ships Transferred to the Imperial Iranian Navy, Uss Zellars, Uss Stormes, Uss Trout, Uss Kenneth D. Bailey, Iranian Frigate Sabalan, Uss Amphion, Uss Gordius, Iranian Frigate Sahand, Uss Bordelon, Hms Sluys, Iranian Frigate Alvand, Iranian Frigate Alborz, Iis Rostam, Iis Chah Bahar, Iis Sohrab, Iis Faramarz, Iis Saam, Iis Zaal, Iis Artemiz, Iranian Destroyer Palang, Iranian Destroyer Babr. Excerpt: USS Amphion (AR-13) was the lead ship of her class of repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. The second U.S. Navy vessel to be named Amphion, she was not commissioned until January 1946, five months after the end of the war. She was decommissioned in September 1971 and transferred to the Imperial Iranian Navy as IIS Chahbahan. She was purchased outright by Iran in March 1977. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution she remained in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy through at least 1985. Her fate beyond that date is not reported in secondary sources. Amphion was laid down on 20 September 1944 at Tampa, Florida, by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company and launched on 15 May 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Howard D. Orem, the wife of Captain Howard D. Orem, the aide and flag secretary to Admiral Ernest J. King; and commissioned at her builder's yard on 30 January 1946, Captain Noble W. Abrahams in command. Designed and built to carry out a primary mission of making emergency and routine repairs to ships of the fleet during periods of technical availability, Amphion was equipped with a wide variety of repair shops: shipfitter, carpentry, pipe and copper, sheet metal, welding, canvas, watch, optical, foundryin short, facilitie. More: Books, , Ships-of-the-Imperial-Iranian-Navy~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC